Techies converge to talk mashups

Iria · Feb 18, 2006, 10:54 AM

Hundreds of technologists, reporters and investors are expected Monday morning in Mountain View, Calif., for MashupCamp, the first conference devoted to discussions about the custom programs that come from merging multiple application program interfaces.

In the wake of last year's launch of Google Maps and the slew of applications like HousingMaps--a blending of the mapping service and Craigslist housing listings--that quickly followed, many people have been focusing on mashups.

Now that interest will coalesce as about 300 people arrive at Mountain View's Computer History Museum for two days of meetings, panel discussions and hard-core networking among those who seek to develop mashups and those providing the APIs behind them.

Among the companies that are supporting MashupCamp--a nonprofit event in which anyone who signed up had the opportunity to organize a talk--are Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Adobe Systems, Amazon.com and Salesforce.com.
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Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 74	Techies converge to talk mashups Hundreds of technologists, reporters and investors are expected Monday morning in Mountain View, Calif., for MashupCamp, the first conference devoted to discussions about the custom programs that come from merging multiple application program interfaces. In the wake of last year's launch of Google Maps and the slew of applications like HousingMaps--a blending of the mapping service and Craigslist housing listings--that quickly followed, many people have been focusing on mashups. Now that interest will coalesce as about 300 people arrive at Mountain View's Computer History Museum for two days of meetings, panel discussions and hard-core networking among those who seek to develop mashups and those providing the APIs behind them. Among the companies that are supporting MashupCamp--a nonprofit event in which anyone who signed up had the opportunity to organize a talk--are Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Adobe Systems, Amazon.com and Salesforce.com. ____________ Read More / Source: ZDNet